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Housing Decisions, Family Types and Gender. A look across LIS countries
Rossi, Mariacristina; Sierminska, Eva - 2015
value of one's own home (home equity) is the largest financial reserve in a household's wealth portfolio, it is important to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725446
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Per capita income versus household-need adjusted income: A cross-country comparison
Koulovatianos, Christos; Minkovski, Polina; Schroeder, … - 2010
We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household …-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the … twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline in monetary gains achieved by household-size economies over time. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335538
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Fuel poverty exposure and drivers: A comparison of vulnerability landscape between Egypt and Jordan
Belaid, Fateh - 2020
measure the fuel poverty extent. Second, we implement a multivariate statistical approach to untangle the fuel poor household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389665
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Families, time and well-being in Canada
Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
Using cross-sections of microdata from Surveys of Consumer Finance and Surveys of Labour and Income Dynamics, we document changes in the availability of time and money in Canadian two-parent families between 1971 and 2006 as the paid work hours of mothers have increased. While long hours of paid...
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International income inequality: Measuring PPP bias by estimating Engel curves for food
Almås, Ingvild - 2008
Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected real incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer is a country, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335574
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The Inequality We Want: How Much Is Too Much?
Krozer, Alice - 2017
A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle- and upper-middle-income groups hold remain stable...
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The structure of income in elderly households and relative poverty rates in Japan from the viewpoint of international comparisons
Murozumi, Masako; Shikata, Masato - 2008
Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335344
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Subnational analyses using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data archive
Jesuit, David K. - 2008
This brief chapter introduces researchers to the possibilities for subnational research using the harmonized data sets made available via the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) (www.lisproject.org). We first offer a brief overview of the LIS and discuss specific challenges for subnational research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335354
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On the evolution of household income
Salinari, Giambattista; De Santis, Gustavo - 2008
We present a markovian homogeneous model that mimics the evolution of household income. With three parameters only, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335366
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Sources of equality and inequality: Wages, jobs, households and redistribution
Kenworthy, Lane - 2008
of individual earnings, inequality of market household incomes, redistribution, and other factors influence the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335426